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Her wakeful fear is terror of the great breast-and-shoulder, upper rage and power of man, which may pierce her defenseless lower self. The terror and the desire are near together and go with an admiration of the slender, abstracted bull loins. Other dream-fears, or strong dream-impressions, may be almost imageless.
Edward knew, kneeling there with his eyes shut, how Hazel's hair would flow sweetly over the pillow; how her warm arm would feel about his neck; how wildly sweet it would be, in some dark hour, to allay dream-fears and hush her to sleep. Never before had the gracious intimacy of marriage so shone in his eyes.
They may be a great terror, for example, of a purely geometric figure a figure from pure geometry, or an example of pure mathematics. Or they may have no image, but only a sensation of smell, or of color, or of sound. These are the dream-fears of the soul which is falling out of human integrity into the purely mechanical mode.
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